What is women’s health?
Women’s health is devoted to facilitating the
- preservation of wellness and
- prevention of illness in women,
And includes screening, diagnosis, and management of conditions which
- are unique to women
- are more common in women
- are more serious in women
- have manifestations, risk factors, or interventions which are different in women.
It also
- recognizes the importance of the study of gender differences
- recognizes multidisciplinary team approaches
- includes the values and knowledge of women and their own experience of health and illness
- recognizes the diversity of women’s health needs over the life cycle, and how these needs reflect differences in race, class, ethnicity, culture, sexual preference, and levels of education and access to medical care
- includes the empowerment of women, as for all patients, to be informed participants in their own health care.
Adopted by National Academy on Women’s Health Medical Education September 26, 1994
